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Weather Forecast Pair ind somewhat colder Sunday and Sunday night. Monday increasing cloudiness with slowly rising temperatures. Temperatures yesterday—Highest, 47, at 3:45 p.m.; lowest, 37, at 11:00 p.m. United States Weather Bureau Report. The Evening and Sunday Star is delivered in the city and suburbs at 80c per month when 4 Sundays; 90c per month when 5 Sundays. The Night Pinal Edition and Sunday Morning Star at 90c when 4 Sun days; $1.00 when 5 Sundays. An Associated Press Newspaper. So. 2,01o—No. 36,355. WASHINGTON, D. C., NOVEMBER 14, 1943-110 PAGES. *** ZEZZZ TEN CENTS ffSSiH Reds Drive on Poland, 60 Miles Away, After Capturing Zhitomir; U. S. Bombers Hammer Bremen Rail Center's Fall Virtually Splits Nazis in Ukraine B? the Associated Press. • LONDON, Sunday, Nov. 14.— The Red Army virtually split the Germans’ Ukraine forces yester day by capturing the rail junc tion of Zhitomir and sped on to day toward the old Polish border 60 miles beyond. Soviet forces smashed into the city on the Leningrad-Odessa line from the east, west and south and It was conquered after a violent night struggle. Other units, Moscow said, were converging on Korosten, a second vital junction on the same line to the north. One group took Cher nyakhov, on the railway 13 miles above Zhitomir and 33 miles south of Korosten. A third force that drove into Malin was 27 miles east of Korosten. Occupation of this town would force ] the Germans to reroute all their! north-south traffic through the pripet marshes of prewar Poland. iuu Towns uapiurea. More than 100 towns fell in yes terday's drive that bled the Germans with “enormous losses in manpower and equipment,” said the Moscow midnight communique, recorded by the Soviet monitor. Another important Russian at tack northeast of the Zhitomir- j Korosten area was plunging ahead through the marshes toward Rechit sa, now but 15 miles away, to out flank Gomel in White Russia. Twelve heavily fortified German strongpoints were taken and about 2.000 Germans were declared wiped out in the bloody fighting. Large numbers of prisoners were taken and tanks, guns and stores destroyed or captured by the Russians. The fall of Zhitomir also gained another important milestone on one of the few east-west automobile roads in Russia from Kiev to j Southern Poland. Its capture was announced by Marshal Joseph Stalin exactly a week after he had triumphantly hailed the fall of Kiev, 85 miles eastward. Nazis Abandon Supplies. Later details told of fighting in the streets before the Germans fled during the night, leaving large stores of ammunition, provisions,; big guns and trucks behind. In one town in the area the Russians said' they found 128 trucks, 1.000 rifles and 30 guns and mortars. Russian guerrillas also were op erating behind German lines in the Zhitomir region and the communi que said they derailed two Ger man troop trains and three re pair trains. About 400 Germans <See RUSSIA, Page A-9.) i Ellice Islands Raided Second Time by Japs Two Wounded, Damage Slight at Funafuti By the Associated Press. PEARL HARBOR, T. H„ Nov. 13. ■—Six Japanese bombers raided American installations on Funafuti In the Ellice Islands group early toi* day, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz announced. About 30 bombs were dropped during two runs at high altitude. Two men were wounded and minor material damage was inflicted. (It was the second raid on the Ellice Islands in two days. The Navy Department announced earlier today that approximately a dozen big enemy bombers at tacked the American base on Nanomea Thursday night. That raid, the Navy said, killed one man, wounded two others and caused minor damage.) Text of Admiral Nimitz's commu nique: "Early this morning (November 13. west longitude timet six Japa nese bombers raided our installa tions on Funafuti in the Ellice Islands, dropping about 30 bombs In two high-altitude runs, causing minor material damage. "Casualties were two wounded.'’ Von Papen Leaves Ankara To Give Report to Hitler By the Associated Press. ANKARA, Turkey, Nov. 13.— Franz Von Papen, German Ambas sador to Turkey, left here last night to report to Adolf Hitler on the Allied conferences at Moscow and t Cairo and tonight it was said he had indicated to confidants his be lief that Turkey sooner or later would grant air and naval bases to the Allies. This so-called belief, however, may have been planted intentionally by Von Papen in an effort to gain Turkish or Allied reaction. Von Papen conferred with Turkish Foreign Minister Numan Menemen cioglu before leaving. British For eign Secretary Anthony Eden and Menemencioglu had held a lengthy conference at Cairo when Mr. Eden was en route back to London from the tri-power Moscow conference. * I i---4 5th Army in See-Saw Battle With Nazis on Road to Rome British Forces Move Into Position /■ Along Sangro as Winter Sets In ! By the Associated Press. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Nov. 13.—Winter de scended on the Italian front in earnest today with the American 5th Army locked in grim, see saw fighting with the Germans on the main road to Rome and the British 8th Army still mov ing into position against enemy lines along the Sangro River. The 5th Army made what head quarters described as ‘'further local advances against stiff resistance and in difficult country.” occupying the towns of Filignano and Pozzili, re spectively, four miles north and two miles northeast of Venafro and about 25 miles inland from the Tyrrhenian Coast. The Germans in their determined resistance have struck out at sev eral points, and headquarters dis closed for the first time today that on Thursday the Germans had beaten the 5th Army back and oc cupied high grounds on Mount Camino, north of the town of Mig nano strategically guarding the road to Rome. The Allies had taken the heights on Wednesday. After losing them to the Germans in Thursday's coun terattacks, they smashed forward Friday and not only regained the lost ground but won new positions. The 8th Army was engaged prin cipally in sending out patrols, one of which crossed the Sangro River and wiped out a German machine gun nest. To the south they re pelled a German counterattack in brisk fighting between Allied-held <See ITALY, 1Page A-57) Navy Reorganization Brings Massive Force To Bear Against Japs Revised Tactical System Focuses Striking Power On 17 New Carriers By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER, Associated Press Staff Writer. The Navy now has perfected one of the greatest tactical re organizations in its history in order to bring massive air-strik ing power against Japanese sea forces and island bases in the Pacific. It is completion of this reorganiza tion, as well as the launching of 17 battle-type aircraft carriers and hundreds of other ships in the last two years, which enabled Admiral Chester \V. Nimitz, Pacific fleet chief, to say last week with full con fidence of victory that “Our time has come to attack." A ranking naval leader told this reporter yesterday that “Just about all our ships in the Pacific, except the submarines, have been grouped around aircraft carriers and the organization makes such a formid able force that when I saw it, and the fighting spirit of the men in it, I ..almost felt sorry for the Japs for the first time in my life." Problem Is Twofold. The initial problem of this massed force is twofold: To clear the Japanese out of key island positions and, if possible, to create an opportunity to engage and destroy the enemy fleet. How soon the latter stroke can be de livered depends, of course, on when the Japanese are willing to come out and fight. Reorganization of the Pacific fleet around aircraft carriers began tentatively before the enemy attack on Pearl Harbor. At that time, this country had seven carriers and several individual carrier task forces. The battleship remained the backbone of the fleet, and the tactical concept was that in any engagement it would deliver the knockout punch. Temporary paralysis of the battleships, resulting from the Pearl Harbor bombing, automatically and quickly forced aircraft carriers into a fighting role of paramount im portance. Airmen Promoted. Subsequently, Rear Admiral John H. Topers, then chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, was assigned to Ad miral Nimitz' staff with the rank of vice admiral and later his succes sor, Rear Admiral John S. McCain, was elevated to the new post of Deputy chief of naval operations for air with the rank of vice admiral. All down the line battle-tested naval airmen have been promoted. Successful task force leaders have been given important new assign ments in the reorganized fleet. The w'hole concept of naval action has <See HIGHTOWERTPage A-10.) Americans Enlarge Hold on Bougainville In All Directions Liberators Again Make 2,000-Mile Flight to Bomb Soerabaja ST the Associated Press. SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AL LIED HEADQUARTERS, Sunday, Nov. 14.—The American beach head at Empress Augusta Bay on the west-central coast of Bougainville in the Northern Sol omons has been extended in aU directions. Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s head quarters reported today that the Japanese have left 300 dead in fight ing there. The beachhead, where the ma rines landed on November 1, is on the last big Solomons island barring the eastern approaches to Rabaul. Their advances, marines and Army troops have occupied Piva village, captured Japanese artillery and supplies. Liberator Attack Soerabaja. The Americans previously had held a rectangular position with the bay on the south, mountains on the north, the Piva river on the east and the Laruma river on the west. headquarters reported today the second roundtrip flight of more than 2.000 miles within less than a week by Liberators for a night attack on Soerabaja, former Dutch naval base now held by the Japanese of Java. Allied planes kept up the cease less attacks on shipping in the New Ireland-New Britain sector from which the Japanese on Bougainville must draw their support. A Libera tor, in the latest t^>w, scored a bomb hit which damaged a 7,000 ton merchantship off KaVieng, New Ire land. Units of the Japanese air force at tempted one of their infrequent forays against Darwin, Australia. At Darwin, which now has been raided 64 times by enemy planes. Spitfires intercepted the nine latest raiders. The offensive action announced at Empress Augusta Bay occurred Wednesday. (Previous dispatches had told of 250 Japanese being killed there last Sunday and Monday and of (See-PACIFIC, Page"~A~6) 3 Dead in Pennsy Wreck COLUMBUS, Ohio (Sunday) {&).—The St. Louisan, all coach train of the Pennsyl vania Railroad, was derailed here about 2:30 a.m. today after striking an automobile. First reports said three per sons, including the engineer, were killed, and several per sons were injured. Nine of the 12 coaches, reported car rying more than 500 passen gers, left the tracks. Flyers Describe Smashing Raid On Japanese Ships at Rabaul BY VERN HAUGLAND, Associated Press War Correspondent. ADVANCED SOUTH PACIFIC HEADQUARTERS, Nov. 13.—The daring of American pilots, one of whom dropped his belly tank on a Japanese plane when he ran out of ammunition, and lack of organiza tion of the enemy were credited by naval commanders today for the success of the latest American at tack on Rabaul shipping and the comnlete failure of a Japanese stab at opr carrier force. Carrier-based dive bombers and torpedo bombers sank three war ships, damaged 12 others and shot down 24 Japanese planes Thursday in Rabaul’s Harbor. Sixty-four of 70 Japanese Zeros, torpedo planes and dive-bombers were shot dojn .later when they attacked a carrier ! unit. The Japanese planes came at the carrier force in waves, starting at 1:55 pm. "It was one of the most spectacu lar battles you could imagine,” said Comdr. Forsyth Massey of Roway ton, Conn., a member of the staff of the admiral commanding the task force. "Our planes had just taken off again when 20 dive bombers came in at 15,000 feet in good formation. They started a dive from that alti tude at 45 or 50 degrees. "One section of them came down together. Others picked out indi vidual ships. They scored near misses on two carriers and four de (8ee Haugland, Page A-4.) Best German Port Hit Despite Thick Clouds, Fighters B» the Associated Press. LONDON, Nov. 13.—American Flying Fortresses and Liberator bombers, protected by Thunder bolt and Lightning fighters, fought through swarms of Ger man fighters, thick clouds and 50-below-zero temperature today to batter the vital port and com munications center of Bremen. Railway yards, canals, highways, bridges and the Germans’ best port since the destruction of Hamburg were blasted by the American heavy bombers which also took a toll of 33 Nazi interceptors. The accompany ing Thunderbolts and Lightnings ac counted for 10 more enemy aircraft for a total of 43. In swamping the heavily-defended port—using a new technique of bombing through the clouds. Berlin said—15 of the big bombers and nine American fighters were reported missing. “Several hundred'’ German fight ers were seen by tne bomber escorts which made their longest and most hazardous mission to date, it was announced. RAF Blasts Invasion Coast. The importance of the raid—the 8th Air Force’s fourth on Bremen —was stressed by an official disclo sure that more than 1,000,000 tons of imports from the Scandinavian countries flow through the port each year. In addition, Bremen is the home of Germany’s biggest ship building yards, particularly those turning out submarines. In addition to the American heavy bomber attack, RAF fighters were also out today, continuing their usual daily blasting of enemy com munications along the invasion coastline. The size of the attacking Ameri can force in the 800-mile round trip flight was not officially dis closed. One pilot of a supporting Light ning fighter which helped cover the American heavies said the Germans threw up everything from single engine ME-109s to JU-88 fighter bombers shooting rocket shells. “The ME-109s made a constant tail attack on our group,” said Sergt. Robert J. Nicholson, Syracuse. N. Y., Fortress gunner of the first groups to return. Vision Obscured Most of Way. The returning crewmen said vision was obscured during most of the journey, and the results of the raid were impossible to determine. Tire blow at Bremen was the first since October 8. when the port was dealt a double-barreled assault. Flying Fortresses then hit Bremen and Vegesack by day at a cost of 30 bombers, while the RAF struck Bremen the same night, with Han nover as the secondary target, at a cost of 31 bombers. Antiaircraft fire was called mod erate in today's raid by the Ameri cans. While the 8th Air Force bombers were hitting Bremen, RAF Ty phoons and Spitfires struck at Ger man transport targets in Northern France and the Low Countries and (See RAIDSTPage A^37) No Relatives May Meet Gripsholm at N. Y. Pier By the Associated Press. Relatives and friends of the Amer ican repatriates from the Orient who are scheduled to arrive at New York December 2 on the ex change liner Gripsholm should not expect to meet them on the pier as that will not be permitted by the authorities for security reasons, the State Department announced yes terday. The Red Cross was designated the sole agency at the pier for the purpose of giving information to re patriates, delivering mail and tele grams, as well as supplying addres ses, telephone numbers and other information as to where they can meet friends and relatives in New York. Relatives and friends of repat riates have been advised, the an nouncement said, to remain at their hotels, homes and other points of contact away from the pier and to advise the Red Cross as to their exact location and telephone num bers in New York. Cold Weather Expected Through Tomorrow The Weather Bureau predicted today that seven-degree below nor mal weather will continue here at least through tomorrow. The bureau said it. expected a reading of 30 degrees at 7 a.m., today, which would be 11 degrees lower than Saturday’s at the same hour. It expected, however, the temperature to rise to 47 degrees by 3 pm., thereby equaling yester day’s reading at that time. Both readings are approximately seven degrees below normal for Novem ber, the bureau said. k Conference to Learn Soviet Relief Needs Early This Week Moscow's Attitude on UNRRA's Problems Heretofore Unrevealed By BLAIR BOLLES, 8t»r 8t»ft Corretpondent. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Nov. 13.—The Russian delegation to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Conference is ex pected to reach Atlantic City to morrow or Monday with a high figure request for assistance to put the Soviet’s war-damaged areas back on their feet. The conference is handicapped in making decisions without the Rus sian estimates, which are in the dis patch case of Delegate Vasili Alex aseevich Sergeev, Soviet deputy commissar for foreign trade, who Is on his way from Moscow. China has presented no estimates either, but the opportunity to provide re lief for Axis-occupied areas in Rus sia is expected to come sooner than in China. Soviet Ambassador Andrei Gromy ko, acting in place of the absent Commissar Sergeev, today launched the UNRRA conference's General Policy Committee into its work with a brief statement urging action and decision. Silent on Soviet Needs. But he left his committee col leagues without an inkling of Rus sia's war relief needs and attitude toward the specific economic social and political questions that arise out of the UNRRA meeting. The paramount task of the Gen eral Policy Committee will be to report to the conference on the scope of UNRRA s activities, which will have to take into consideration the Russian needs. The conference wants to know not only what Russia requires for herself but how Russia views the whole UNRRA idea as an excursion into international co-operation. The conference already has a general understanding of the position of the American, British and Chinese gov ernments toward the relief and re habilitation undertaking. Those four powers have the strongest roles of the 44 govern ments which compose UNRRA. American and British spokesmen have indicated to the conference that decisions on matters which will gravely affect the UNRRA work are to be decided on a level above UNRRA and that the Relief Admin istration will have to fix its pol icies within the framework of the higher politics. However, L. B. Pearson of the Canadian delegation has delicately raised the question whether UNRRA should not play a part in the decisions of the higher bodies, and the problem has become an issue here. Control over international move ments of supplies of food, clothing, ~(See UNRRA, Page A-147) Sports High Lights Notre Dame and most of the other leading football teams stuck strictly to their regular lines yesterday with North Car olina, which upset Penn, 9 to 7, being about the only outfit to materially change the script. Notre Dame swept Northwest ern, 25-6; Army had trouble but tripped Sampson Navy, 16-7; Navy ran roughshod over Col umbia, 61-0; Yale beat Prince ton, 27-6; Iowa Seahawks, next foes of the Irish, downed Camp Grant, 29-13; Ohio State created a mild surprise in taking a 29 26 thriller from Illinois, Duke trounced Virginia, Dartmouth jolted Cornell and Michigan, Texas and Colorado College added triumphs. In a traditional game here Tech High nosed out Central, 7-6. Maryland visited Bainbridge Naval Training Sta tion to absorb a 46-0 licking. Details on sports pages. Radio Programs, Pg. C-10 Complete Index, Page A-2 A 60-Cent Boost in Coal Price . Proposed to Vinson by OP A Recommendation Made to Offset Pay Increase Granted to Miners By the Associcted Pres*. | A recommendation for increas ing coal prices as much as 60 cents a ton to offset the pay boost granted to miners has been j submitted to Stabilization Direc tor Fred M. Vinson, it was learned last night. The increases were proposed to Mr. Vinson by the Office of Price Administration and the Solid Fuels Administration following several1 days of conferences, informed sources said. Mr. Vinson's approval js necessary before any- increase can be put into effect. Under the reported schedule, anth- i racite would be hiked 60 cents a ton, while the average increase for soft coal would be about 15 cents. The soft coal adjustments, it was reported would range from no in crease in some areas to 25 cents a ton in other regions. Grades of coal also would be taken into con sideration under the proposed re vision. Operators have been reported seek ing up to 83 cents a ton on anthracite1 and 45 cent on soft coal. Calculation of the amount of time miners spend traveling underground in the various coal fields was de- j (See COAL, :Page_A-3J j Consumers, U. S. Save 89 Billibns by Price Controls, OPA Claims Major Commodities Cost Less Now Than During World War By JAMES Y. NEWTON. Compared with the World War, present price controls will save the public and the Government $89,000,000,000 through January 1, Price Administrator Chester Bowles said yesterday. Statistics compiled by the OPA show that war goods purchased by the. Government by the year’s end would have cost $67,000,000,000 more at the relatively uncontrolled prices for materials and services prevail- j ing at the close of the last war. That conclusion is based on an estimated expenditure for war goods of $128, 000,000.000. Consumers, OPA said, will save $22,000,000,000 by the end . of the year because of the generally lower cost of living in this war. Projecting the savings of price control through 1944, OPA said that by the close of that year war ma terials savings will reach $121,000, 000,000, based on an expected Gov ernment expenditure of $228,000, 000,000. The savings to consumers by that time will total $54,000,000,000. Both figures, however, are based on the Government's ability to hold prices at current levels. A breakdown into commodities indicates the current price of al most every major item is far under the peak cost in the World War. The differential in prices in the two wars is particularly striking among the war material-; purchased by the Government. Prices of such materials have remained virtually unchanged since before the Pearl Harbor attack. “It seems clear to me,” Mr. Bowles said, “and it should be to every thinking American, that we all have a tremendous stake in price con trol. “If we can hold the line, if prices of both industrial materials and living cost items can be maintained at present levels, we can come out of this war with a reasonable stand _(See PRICES, Page A-3.) Lovett, Watson, Dodd To Start Fight on Pay Ban Tomorrow Will Report for Work As Usual, Ignoring Congress' Ouster Move By the Assorleted Presi. Three Federal jobholders ac cused by a House committee of subversive associations will show up for work as usual tomorrow— and start a fight for the pay checks Congress says they cannot have. The outcome probably will be a court decision on the question: Has Congress the right to police the payrolls of Government depart ments? It is likely to wind up in a battle between Congress and Secretary ol Interior Ickes, who has served notice he is ready to go to the mat for one of his employes, Dr. Robert Morss Lovett, executive assistant to the Governor of the Virgin Islands. Tomorrow Set As Deadline. Congress tacked a rider to an appropriations act several months ago ordering that Dr. Lovett, Dr. Goodwin Watson and William E. Dodd, jr., be dropped lrom the pay rolls by November 15 unless the President submitted their nomina tions to the Senate. Dr. Watson and Dr. Dodd work for the Federal Communications Commission. The three were labeled “unfit” for Federal office by the Dies Com mittee, which questioned their poli tical and economic philosophies. Senator McKellar, Democrat, Ten nesee, said a House committee was convinced the three men “had com munistic principles.” In a message to Congress, the President called the salary tfan “an unwarranted encroachment upon the authority of both the executive and judicial branches.” All three have declared they in tend to report for work as usual tomorrow. The General Accounting Office probably will have to decide whether Congress was within its right when it legislated the three men out of jobs. If that office and the Court of Claims decide Congress is right, the fight is virtually cer tain to go into the courts for a decision. 'L. Foster Smith7 Still Regarded As Fine Fellow by Many Here (Picture on Page A-22.) Whatever else “L. Foster Smith” may be accused of, he is still re garded by a lot of people in these parts as a jolly goo^jl fellow. Sometime soon Federal Bureau of Investigation agents are expected to bring back from Chicago a man whose name they gave as Arnold Lester and who, they say, is the Mr. Smith who so jovially duped an appalling number of Washington ians and visiting firemen into be lieving he was a talent scout of high standing, representing Warner Brothers film studios. He was ar raigned before a United States Com mission in Chicago yesterday, where he pleaded guilty to violating the National Stolen Property Act. He V — M was held under $5,000 bail, and re moval proceedings were postponed until Wednesday. Lester, the FBI agents report, was arrested in a Chicago hotel Fri day night. According to J. Edgar Hoover, Lester freely admitted he cashed checks at the Statler Hotel here when he knew they were no good. He also told FBI agents, Mr Hoover said, that he had falsely rep resented himself as a talent scout and that there was no basis to his claim that some Hollywood stars were on thfeir way to the Capital to star in a Smith extravs^anze “Capital Capers.” Whatever his real name is, he wii: remain dear to the hesu'ta of man) (See TALENT SCOUT, Page A-22.) 4 Die, 10 Hurt In Three Traffic Accidents Here 9 Fire Engine Collides With Car Carrying U. S. Employes (Pictures on Page AS.) Four persons were killed and 10 Injured In three traffic acci dents here yesterday. A fire engine responding to a call of an automobile on fire collided with a passanger car carrying five War Department employes at Twen ty-third and G streets N.W., re sulting in the death of two persons and the injury of seven others, two critically. Dead in the fire engine crash were: Charles Henry Calaway, 63, of 17 Sherman avenue, Takoma Park, Md., an employe of the Office of the Chief of Engineers, driver of the passenger car. Miss Velma Walsh, 20, of 3421 Fourteenth street N.W., clerk in the Engineers Office, a passenger in the Calaway car. Killed as Car Hits Tree. In a second accident, Arthur R. Robinson, 25, of 6746 Eastern ave nue N.W. was killed and Pvt. Doug las Coombe, 21, of 4826 Seventh street N.W. was injured when their car struck a tree at Klingle road and Porter street N.W. The fourth fatality came with the death in Casualty Hospital of Alfred Headley. 21, of 1301 Savannah street S.E., injured in a two-car collision last night at Bladenfcurg road and Montana avenue N.E. Two other passengers, Miss Peggy Scott, 21, of Alexandria, Va., and Miss Clara Klosen, 21, of Arlington, Va., were taken to the hospital in an unde termined condition. In Emergency Hospital were the following Engineers Office employes, passengers in the car which col lided with the fire truck: Miss Nell Lord, 19, of 3421 Four teenth street N.W., fractured skull; condition critical. Miss Marjorie Jacob, 23, of 225 Maple avenue, Takoma Park, Md„ possible fractured pelvis and inter nal injuries; condition critical. Leonard R. Smith, 26, of 2036 F street N.W., possible skull fracture and chest injuries; condition un determined. Four Firemen Hurt. Four firemen, all attached to No. 23 Engine Company, were treated at Emergency. They were Wilbur B. Carmalt, 1549 Thirty-fifth street N.W., fracture of both elbows, con dition undetermined: Francis Mar cey, 23, Arlington, Va., contusions, abrasions and concussion, condition undetermined: Herbert D. Reed, 25, of 3325 Nichols avenue S.E., con tusions and abrasions, treated and released, and Ambrose Petellot, Falls Church, Va., head injury, released. According to police investigation, the fire truck was speeding west ori G street, and the automobile going north on Twenty-third street. The impact sent the two vehicles on to the sidewalk, with the truck rest ing on its side and the car jammed alongside, resting on its roof. The car had to be jacked up to free sev eral of the passengers pinned in the rear seat, according to police. Traffic on Twenty-third street, a through thoroughfare, was rerouted for nearly an hour as firemen col lected equipment strewn about. Ad ditional engines were sent to clear the wreckage. The injured were taken to the hospital in ambulance* and police cars. Miss Walsh, a native of Flat River, Mo., came to Washington in No vember. 1941, and had been doing (See ACCIDENTS, Page A-3.) Plane Hits Virginia Farmhouse, Explodes Army Pilot Escapes Injury in Collision B> ihe Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va„ Nov. 13.—An Army fighter pjane set fire to a farmhouse about 10 miles southeast of the Richmond Army Air Base this evening when it struck the chimney of the dwelling and ex ploded. Neither the pilot, who bailed out jin his parachute when the plane went into & dive, nor any of the ! occupants of the house were injured. Both the plane, house and furnish ings were virtually destroyed. The owner of the house, Edward A. Adkins, Roxbury, RFD 1. was stand ing in the yard at the time of the crash. His wife and two children were in the house «and escaped outside. The plane was on a routine training flight at the time of tha accident, airbase officials said. A board of AAF officers will investigate. Vatican Unable To Identify Bombs By the Associated Press. LONDON, Nov. 13.—The Vatican radio, In a broadcast recorded by the Associated Press, said today that after a careful examination experts had been unable to come to a pos itive conclusion as to the origin of the four bombs that were dropped on Vatican City November 9 by an unidentified plane.